Quotes About Inspiration

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

I love painting.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I found I have to stay painting.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.